DYSCARNATE
The sheer size and weight of the instrumental opener ‘The Weight Of All Things’ says everything about this album. Massive. Just fucking huge. With ‘In the Face of Armageddon’ comes the mighty concrete-crunching death grunts atop intense instrumentation. ‘Cain Enable’ along with ‘The Promethean’ are both standout tracks and have the mightiest, dirtiest grooves from all ten tracks. ‘A Drone In The Hive’ and ‘Engraving Ecstasy’, however, are almost indistinguishable, swapping some of the riffs from one song to the other would make no significant impact on either (yet Unsworth’s drumming on the former is particularly astounding). Despite a few minor gripes, what’s clear is that Dyscarnate focus on writing, work together, and so tailor their individual parts for the collective, the sum being of mammoth proportions. Superfluous technicality or simple ego-satisfying flourishes are thankfully absent. What remains are vicious and meaty hooks, riffs, and grooves. Their technique is not that of tech death bands capable of chucking out riffs that are both intricate and hammering. Dyscarnate’s precision is as that of engineering, calculated to achieving a specific end. And that end is to deliver head on neck-breaking, cranium-crushing death metal. And as with the instrumentation, the combined vocal battery of guitarist Whitty and bassist Bates is a demonic fusion, each complimenting and augmenting the vehement venom of the other. The result is what Dyscarnate want: heaviness above all.
Of the thirty nine minutes that compose ‘And So It Came To Pass’, not one is a moment wasted. Groove, technique, and brutality combine into ten tracks of intensely precise death metal. With a solid debut album, 2010’s ‘Enduring the Massacre’, to their name already, Dyscarnate ‘s sophomore album deserves to get the band more attention. ‘And So It Came To Pass’ is an impressive slab of British death metal that deserves a spot on your CD shelves. Ruthless. Get it.
Of the thirty nine minutes that compose ‘And So It Came To Pass’, not one is a moment wasted. Groove, technique, and brutality combine into ten tracks of intensely precise death metal. With a solid debut album, 2010’s ‘Enduring the Massacre’, to their name already, Dyscarnate ‘s sophomore album deserves to get the band more attention. ‘And So It Came To Pass’ is an impressive slab of British death metal that deserves a spot on your CD shelves. Ruthless. Get it.
LABEL:
FORMAT:
Siege of Amida
Album
AND SO IT CAME TO PASS
Review by Jason Guest
RUNNING TIME:
39:09
RELEASE DATE:
27th Feb 2012
TRACK LISTING
1) The Weight of All Things
2) In the Face of Armageddon
3) Cain Enable
4) A Drone in the Hive
5) Engraving Ecstasy
6) The Promethean
7) Grinding Down the Gears
8) Rise and Fall
9) Seizure
10) Kingdom of the Blind
2) In the Face of Armageddon
3) Cain Enable
4) A Drone in the Hive
5) Engraving Ecstasy
6) The Promethean
7) Grinding Down the Gears
8) Rise and Fall
9) Seizure
10) Kingdom of the Blind
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
UK
"...an impressive slab of British death metal that deserves a spot on your CD shelves. Ruthless."
